Word: gorizia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were some signs that the Communists had lost ground. One day last week at Lecce, when Red Boss Palmiro Togliatti denounced the Marshall Plan, he was booed into silence. In a sudden bullish mood, the Rome stockmarket rose higher than it had been in three months. At Gorizia, a crowd of 1,000 Italians broke up a Communist meeting, then stormed toward the nearby Yugoslav border shouting: "Long Live America, Death to Tito!" Frontier guards had to squash the impromptu invasion. Customs officials discovered a cargo of 8,000 guns, 4,000 cases of ammunition and one Communist agitator...
...tight spot. Comrade Tito's government fumed; a formal Yugoslav note denounced the Western proposal as serving only "chauvinist hatred." Next day Yugoslav Foreign Minister Stanoje Simitch announced more calmly that, as far as he was concerned, the Italians could have Trieste-but only in exchange for Italian Gorizia. It was not much of an offer...
...extreme. He asked a G.I. in Italy last week if he had an Italian girl friend. When the G.I. hesitated, then answered "No, sir," Ike grinned and said: "The Army has gone to hell." He stated the dream of peace in strictly G.I. language to soldiers at Gorizia: "We are so friendly we do not want to fight any more. We do not want anything to interfere with the World Series." He told reporters in Berlin that he felt there was too much pessimistic talk in the world, pointed to the Allied Control Council as proof that the wartime Allies...
Throughout Venezia Giulia, the Communists are campaigning against the Church. Recently both the Bishop of Trieste and the Archbishop of Gorizia have been stoned on the steps of their cathedrals...
...Very Poor Situation." Gorizia is headquarters for a regiment of the U.S. 91st Infantry Division, and is also a large Yugoslav military center. Later I went with other correspondents to see the Yugoslav commissar for Gorizia, whose offices were in the town's swankiest building. Ushered in with snappy saluting, we discovered an educated young man. However, when he learned the purpose of our visit-to get his reaction to the penetration of his lines-he quickly excused himself, and sent in eight bottles of beer. With the beer came an older, baldheaded, bug-eyed captain, who obviously...